Look Behind the Screens (August 11, 2008)

[Bandit LOAF]

Here are two CDs that don't come from Mythic - as a grand finale to the 'Making the Game' series, Captain Johnny has provided ISOs of his Wing Commander Prophecy and Wing Commander Secret Ops development CDs! They're full of useful information and tools - everything from ship specifications to a copy of the MED internal mission editor. Can you get it to work?

• WCP Dev CD (267 mb)
• WCSO Dev CD (253 mb)

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Original update published on August 11, 2008

 

[Iceblade]

I know this news post is a little old, but I noticed something rather interesting in the WCSO dev CD. There is an excel table that includes all of the Wing Commander (primary game series) Confed fighters from WC1 to WCSO. (WCP_SO_DEV_BACKUP\Prophecy\Docs) It includes all of the usual stats, but there is something else I noticed. For the WC1 and WC2 craft, there is a conversion to later game series units:

Rotation: "for WC1&2 to = WC3/4/P multiply Y/P/R x 8"
Shields: "for WC1&2 to = WC3/4/P multiply Shields x 15"
Armor: "for WC1&2 to = WC3/4/P multiply Armor x 5"

I'm not sure if this was something from the WC Bible/other design documents or merely some idle compiling of information by a designer (apparently Cap'n Johnny actually). The purpose of the conversion is not clear, which puts in doubt the relevance or accuracy (either as background information for canon material or as approximate values for the later game's game mechanics).

Still, it is interesting information that at least one developer gave some thought as to the equivalence of the values.

Loaf may have more information on this particular document or perhaps CJ will come by with further details about these conversion factors.

 

[ChrisReid]

That's a cool find. It's interesting how different the multiplier would be on the shields compared to the armor.